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  • From: EJ <emj@uvic.ca>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Two agricultures not one
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:41:19 -0700

rose hips, black currants

On 28/09/10 2:14 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

Where do folks in the higher lattitudes get vitamin C in the winter, if
not for oranges?) > Barbara M
Foster, RI

I remember when oranges where still relatively new in many parts of Europe.They were nearly inedible for being so sour. So I would guess that people in higher latitudes had other ways of getting vitamin C for thousands of years before oranges reached them.
A tea/infusion made from pine needles did it for locals in the Arctic region and they saved many an "explorer" from scurvy death with that.
john

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